The team involved with the Virtual Museum project have been working hard, with the project successfully pitched for by several Tec Hub members and associates, and well underway. Tec Hub member Grant Cox of Artas Media is one of 6 working on the museum for the Road to...

To mark the final blog in this series, we’ve looked at why Tom Hiddleston’s version of Henry V – from the BBC’s The Hollow Crown series – is one of the best… Welcome to the last of our blogs under the title Henry V Throughout History where we’ve aimed to chronicle the...

The Hollow Crown’s investment in characters lead to a more human portrayal of King Henry from Tom Hiddleston… Welcome back to our analysis of the 2012 BBC series The Hollow Crown, which marks the most recent screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s take on the life...

The final filmed adaptation of Henry V that we come to is the BBC’s 2012 TV series The Hollow Crown, which stars Tom Hiddleston as Henry. The Hollow Crown builds up to Henry V by adapting Shakespeare’s preceding history plays Richard II, Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV...

And so, we reach our final analysis of Sir Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film production of Henry V. So far, we’ve seen that Branagh’s version of Henry is a far darker soul than Laurence Olivier’s incarnation of the King. But how would this change as we depart Southampton...

If there’s been one theme that has recurred the most in this blog, it would be the duality of King Henry’s personality. There’s the side that suited Lawrence Olivier: The charismatic leader, the war hero. And equally, there’s the angry, vengeful side that TV’s David...